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Last Will and Testament of Frederick
Tietenberg

The following is the Last
Will and Testament of Frederick Tietenberg as found in the Monroe
County Surrogate Court Records Volume 15 P 287-289. This transcription
is based upon a photocopy purchased through SamPubCo in 2004
and includes all court records relating to the Will and Codicils.
Please note two spellings of the name within the documents.

Record of Will

I Frederick Titenberg of the City of Rochester
County of Monroe and State of New York do make publish and declare
this my last will and testament in manner and form following
that is to say
I give and devise and bequeath the property situate on the Corner
of Clinton Street and Bowery Street unto my wife Caroline for
and during her natural life and after her death to my sons Frederic
and Robert in fee.
But it is my will and I direct that my son Frederic shall have
the control and management of the property and the use of the
rents and profits of them after her death he paying for the
benefit of my children, Louis, Robert, Ida, Emil and Bartra (?),
interest upon the sum of $8,000 share and share alike in full
of the said rents and profits for the period of ten years after
the decease of my said wife and then the said property is to
be equally divided between my son Fredericke & Robert.
All the rest and residue of my Estate real & personal I give
devise and bequeath to my wife Caroline subject never the less
to the payment of my just debts and my funeral expenses and in
lieu of dower and also upon the condition that she release all
claim of title to the fee of the property upon Clinton Street
& Bowery Street to my two sons above named.
Witness my hand this 10th day of January 1871 F. Tietenberg

The forgoing instrument was at the date thereof
signed sealed published and declared by the said Frederic Titenberg
as and for his last Will and testament in our presence and we
at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each
other have hereunto subscribed out names as witnesses.
Charles H Clark Rochester Mon Co N.Y.
Carl Huttenschmied (two words follow the name which can't be
identified)

State of New York
Monroe County
Be it Remembered, that on the day of the date hereof the last
Will and Testament of Frederick Tietenberg late of the City of
Rochester in said County deceased being the foregoing written
instrument was duly proved before W. Dean Stuart Esq Surrogate
of the said County, as and for the last Will and Testament of
the Real and Personal Estate of said deceased; which said last
Will and Testament and the proofs and examinations taken thereof
are recorded in his office
L.S. In Testimony Whereof. The Surrogate of the said County
has hereunto set his hand and affixed his seal of office this
3rd day of May 1871.
W.D. Stuart, Surrogate.

Surrogates Court Monroe County
In the Matter of Proving the last Will and Testament of Frederick
Tietenberg, Deceased
Monroe County SS: Charles H Clark and Carl Huttenschmied being
first duly Sworn in open Court upon their several corporal oaths
each for himself doth depose and say that he is a subscribing
witness to the last Will and Testament of Frederick Tietenberg
late of the City of Rochester in the County of Monroe and State
of New York deceased, And these deponents do further say that
the said Frederick Tietenberg deceased, did in the presence of
each of these deponents subscribe his name at the end of the
instrument in writing which is now here shown to these deponents
and which purports to be the last Will and Testament of the Said
deceased, and which bears date on the 10th day of January one
thousand eight hundred and Seventy one, Said died. Died at Rochester
aforesaid on the 16th of March 1871. That the said deceased did
at the time of subscribing his name to the said instrument as
aforesaid declare the same to be his last Will and Testament:
and these deponents did thereupon subscribe their own respective
names at the end of said instrument as attesting witnesses to
the execution thereof each at the request of the said deceased
and in the his presence and in the presence of each other: That
the said deceased, at the time of so subscribing his name to
said instrument as aforesaid and publishing said instrument as
aforesaid was upwards of twenty one years of age and a citizen
of the United States: that he appeared to be and deponents believe
he was of sound mind memory and understanding and not under any
restraint and as deponents verily believe in all respects competent
to devise real estate that each of these deponents saw the other
sign his name to the said instrument in the presence of the said
deceased.
Sworn this 3rd day of May 1871 Charles H Clark Carl Huttenschmied.
WD Stuart Surrogate of Monroe County

A true Record of the last Will and Testament
of Frederick Tietenberg late of the city of Rochester in the
County of Monroe and State of New York deceased and the proofs,
proceedings, and examinations had and taken on admitting said
Will to be proved and recorded according to laws as a Will of
Real and Personal Estate.